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Ask HN: Claude Code in Video Editor

A developer on Hacker News proposed integrating Claude Code into a video editor, asking what tasks users would delegate, with the developer suggesting subtitle addition, text effects, color grading, and silence removal. The project, Donkey, is 100% open source and hosted on GitHub.

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let's say you had Claude Code in your video editor, what would you ask it to help you with on your project?

I ask it to add subtitles, text effects, color grade my clips, cut out the silent parts.

100% open source

https://github.com/DonkeyCut/Donkey

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